I’m very excited to announce the release (finally!) of Drawing on the Past, Vol. 2 that features essays on comics that “seek to examine the many ways in which history worldwide has been explored and (re)represented through comics and how history is a complex construction of imagination, reality, and manipulation.”
A chapter from my comic Beyond Paper Walls was selected for the collection along with other great written essays on comics and comics studies.
Published by the University Press of Mississippi and edited by Dorian L. Alexander, Michael Goodrum, and Philip Smith, the 2 books are a great way to dig into some of the research surrounding the field of comics exploring “questions of diversity and relationality, addressing differences between nations and the cultural, historical, and economic threads that bind them together, however loosely, and however much those bonds might chafe.”
I’m particularly glad to have my work included since I think it’s pretty important that in the field of comics studies- the form of comics be used to investigate and research our past and carve out paths into the future!
(and if you want to pick up a copy of Beyond Paper Walls just hop over to our D&G Shop!)
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/D/Drawing-the-Past-Volume-2